Posted: Feb 18, 2021 4:00 AM ET | Last Updated: February 18
Ottawa city council is caught in a debate over Algonquin identity, but it didn t start with their approval of a new rural community pitched by the Algonquins of Ontario.(CBC)
In a Pembroke, Ont., boardroom in 2013, a retired judge weighed the evidence to determine whether a voyageur who claimed in the mid-1800s to be a fugitive from an English death sentence was in fact an Algonquin.
This was no random historical exercise, but a key decision that would affect the claims of hundreds of descendents hoping for a place on the Algonquins of Ontario membership list.
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Posted: Feb 05, 2021 5:00 PM ET | Last Updated: February 5
The Algonquins of Ontario are planning to build a suburb called Tewin on a large swath of land that currently sits outside Ottawa s urban border. They say they re a legitimate voice for the Algonquin people, despite criticisms from Quebec chiefs.(Jean Delisle/CBC)
The Algonquins of Ontario (AOO) say a plan to create an environmentally friendly suburb in south Ottawa will give their people a chance to be part of the city s society and economy and is indeed, despite what critics have said, a step toward reconciliation.
Last week, city councillors on a joint committee voted nine to three allowing 445 of the approximately 1,620 hectares the AOO recently bought from the Ontario government to be used for the Tewin development.
The city s planning staff scored the land poorly and recommended that the proposal for the community be further analyzed over the next few years before allowing the property into the urban area.
But a surprise motion that referenced the city s truth and reconciliation action plan called for the 445 hectares to be included in the urban area and was approved by nine councillors at the committee level last week.
Council is set to discuss the issue at its meeting next Wednesday.
Ottawa Morning17:00Why the Algonquins of Ontario say the Tewin development is about reconciliationSeveral chiefs of Algonquin First Nations in Quebec say the Tewin development is not about reconciliation and they re calling on city council to put the plans on hold. We get a response from Wendy Jocko, the Chief of the Algonquins of Pikwakanagan First Nation and Lynne Clouthier, the Algonquin Negotiation Representative for Ottawa.17:00
Canada pulls documentary from Sundance 2021 over directorâs claims to indigenous roots
Filmmaker apologizes for claiming family came from the Quebec Algonquin community.
(Photo courtesy of Sundance Institute) An image from director Michelle Latimer s documentary Inconvenient Indian, which was selected for the 2021 Sundance Film Festival s World Cinema Documentary competition â but was pulled by the National Film Board of Canada after questions about Latimer s claim to indigenous roots. | Updated: Dec. 24, 2020, 4:19 a.m.
The National Film Board of Canada has pulled a documentary from the slate of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, after questions surfaced about the filmmakerâs claim to indigenous roots.